We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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